Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 19:33:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in a Windows World Message-ID: <199508201733.TAA00909@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508201613.MAA01700@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Aug 20, 95 12:13:09 pm
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As dennis wrote: > > >> It's like the old UNIX guy who arrogantly says "DOS is not an > >> Operating System, and neither is WINDOWS". > >Truth is truth. > A real operating system is one that provides a computer with usable > services, which both DOS and WINDOS (as it should be called) do. They do not. What do you think why every ``better'' DOS program does direct screen access, deals with hardware (COM port speed comes to mind) registers directly, installs its own handler intercepting keystrokes etc. pp. In other words, almost every `operating system' service is preferably bypassed instead of being used, for the one reason or the other. Very simple: the services DOS is providing are unusable. The only DOS service that's actually being used is the file system. It's ugly, but suffices to load a program from it, and handle some small data files. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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